I have had it since last summer and I was going back and forth about remounting it, I tried to clean it up and it didn't look much better so I decided to have it redone. I went to the taxidermist and had them take it apart while I was there to see what it was made of and too make sure the skull plate was not cut or broke. We found the mount to be made out of cardboard. I was thinking it would have been newspaper or wood and cement ..